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We Are Not Human Beings

2012; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 87; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1017/s0031819111000520

ISSN

1469-817X

Autores

Derek Parfit,

Tópico(s)

Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life

Resumo

We can start with some science fiction. Here on Earth, I enter the Teletransporter . When I press some button, a machine destroys my body, while recording the exact states of all my cells. This information is sent by radio to Mars, where another machine makes, out of organic materials, a perfect copy of my body. The person who wakes up on Mars seems to remember living my life up to the moment when I pressed the button, and is in every other way just like me.

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